Sentences with phrase «opening rocketship»

The road to opening Rocketship Fuerza has been a rocky one filled with community and regional opposition.

The voice of parents who drove over 100 miles every day to send their children to Rocketship, then organized parents to open a Rocketship school in their own community?

Although we had some difficulty in some categories because data had not yet been published for recently - opened Rocketship schools, we were able to successfully find most data points needed.

Not exact matches

Whenever we had to slow for a turn or pull up at a traffic light, the engine threatened to die, but when that Chevy hit the open road with the engine wide open, it felt like we were strapped to a rocketship blasting off for Planet Punani.

One unfortunate fact is that there hasn't yet been any sharing of success strategies with San Jose Unified School District (SJUSD), in which Rocketship resides, something Rocketship says they are open to, «but have not been approached.»

A second Rocketship school opened this school year, and a KIPP middle school opens this coming year.

On Top of the News Charter School Forges Ahead with Expansion Wall Street Journal 7/14/11 Behind the Headline Future Schools Education Next Summer 2011 Rocketship Education hopes to open 20 additional hybrid schools in California by 2017, a plan opposed by the local union and school district.

Rocketship is scheduled to open two additional charter schools in San Jose in the fall of 2011.

Rocketship Education opened the nation's first hybrid school in 2007 and currently operates three charter schools in San Jose, serving over 1,300 students.

In 2007, we opened our first Rocketship school and began to pursue blended learning using a rotational model.

Beyond that, we are working to open new Rocketship schools in Indianapolis and in Washington D.C. by August of 2015.

One interesting overlap with the charter growth story: AppleTree is likely to team up with Rocketship charters (a pairing Pearson suggested), which in 2015 is scheduled to open the first of eight charter schools it is planning for the District.

However, Rocketship will apply to open 5 schools in Morgan Hill Unified on Jan 15 at the Santa Clara County Office Of Education.

Rocketship Education is at again — pushing into territory where it's not welcome, trying to open a Mt. Diablo Rocketship school.

And starting next year, university authorizers expect nationally recognized charter school companies like KIPP and Rocketship Education to take a more active look at opening schools in Michigan.

Rocketship's first campus in D.C is planned to open in 2015, with 1300 students in the first year, increasing to 5,300 students in subsequent years.

Despite widespread criticism, Rocketship hopes to grow by 330 % in the next 5 years, as they move to take market share from district schools Rocketship is planning to open 27 schools in the next five years, more than tripling their...

Rocketship Education, a charter management organization recognized nationally for its high - performing blended schools in California, will open its first D.C. school in the fall of 2016.

Past the deadline, Rocketship withdraws their application to open 16 charters in Texas, ruffling feathers in Texas Education Agency For the second time in the past year, Rocketship has withdrawn a charter application at the last second.

Rocketship, and it's land holder, Launchpad LLC, have aggressive growth plans to open thousands of schools serving a million students in the next 10 years.

Rocketship lost a lawsuit contesting the County's zoning exemption of the Tamien site, and to make matters worse, four local school districts (including Alum Rock) filed suit against Rocketship's petition to open 20 new schools.

One of the three schools to open in 2016 is to slated to be a highly controversial «conversion» school, where Rocketship would takeover and privatize a formerly public school.

Rocketship was denied permission to open a school in Morgan Hill and withdrew their appeal to the county when it became clear they did not have sufficient votes.

Rocketship announced plans this week that it intends to take over a failing school in Nashville Tennessee in addition to opening new...

The downtown San Jose Tamien site should have been the first of the 20 to open, however, strong community opposition led to a number of defeats culminating in Rocketship withdrawing their Tamien application.

In December 2011, Rocketship won approval to open 20 new schools in Santa Clara County, including the Jackson St site.

Rocketship hopes to grow more quickly in the 2016 - 17 school year, as they open 2 new schools in the Bay Area.

Rocketship's plans to open an additional school could reduce FMSD market share to nearly 70 %.

The Rocketship charter school network had plans to open a third DC campus.

Rocketship now runs three K - 5 charter schools in San Jose that serve overwhelmingly low - income, immigrant students, and it hopes to partner with as many as 11 school districts in Northern California to open 20 charter schools in the Silicon Valley area by 2017.

Rocketship's expansion agenda comes at a time when online learning is exploding and as President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are pushing for more high - quality charters to open nationally.

But families that selected a new Rocketship charter school in Ward 5 were in for a rude awakening: After the enrollment deadline had passed they learned the school they had chosen would not actually be opening.

My School DC is working with families enrolled at the Rocketship campus that will not open in order to restore the families to waiting lists of other schools they identified during the lottery process.

But low enrollment numbers was not the reason why Rocketship decided to postpone opening its Ward 5 school, according to Patterson.

Rocketship Education, the upstart charter operator that has posted impressive test scores for traditionally struggling students, won approval early Thursday morning to more than triple its charter network by opening 20 new schools in Santa Clara County — the largest single charter - school approval in the state.

«Someone called us to tell us Rocketship would not be opening because of a permitting issue but that we could probably get off the waitlist at Perry Street Prep,» she says.

More than ten days after getting the news that Rocketship's Ward 5 campus would not open as expected, the parent was still waiting for waitlist updates and was actively considering private school options.

City Paper asked the Public Charter School Board if Rocketship would face any consequence or penalty for its delayed opening.

Already, Rocketship runs five charter schools in San Jose, with three or four more slated to open in August.

Rocketship currently operates three public charter schools in San Jose, Calif., where it is slated to open two more in the fall of 2011.

Rocketship is currently exploring potential partnerships with cities including Denver, Chicago, Tulsa, Okla., Houston, and Phoenix, to open 30 new schools by 2015.

Rocketship schools — which serve more than 1,300 students, nearly 90 percent of whom are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, and 75 percent of whom are English language learners — are open enrollment public charter schools.

Soon after their first school, Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary, opened, its waiting list grew to the point that Danner and Smith knew Rocketship was ripe to expand.

During Rocketship's next ten years, it opened an additional fifteen schools, mostly in San Jose but also with locations in Nashville, Milwaukee, and Washington, D.C. Rocketship originally aimed to serve one million students by 2020, but has since reduced its goal to 25,000 students by 2017 (Bernatek et al. 2012).